The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.
Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.
These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.
You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.